HNL RareBirds™

Mesa Air Group, go!'s parent comapny, has settled with Hawaiian Airlines, and removed its appeal over the $80M award to Hawaiian by the ...

Kalitta Chaters II has brought in N720CK (c/n 21298), a 727-2B6F/Adv, to handle air cargo duties on behalf of Pacific Air Cargo. N720CK had ...

This afternoon, Aloha announced that their cargo operations will be shutting down at the end of business today. The two bidders for the car...

Lion Air International's newest 737-9GPER(W), PK-LFK (c/n 35713), made a tech stop at HNL, during its delivery flight to Indonesia. Rick...

We caught this Aloha Cargo landing at HNL today around 7:14am with a pocket cam. They were also tugging N840AL around.

Air Nippon is taking delivery of JA18AN (c/n 33885), a 737-781(W). It arrived today as ANK9984, and will depart for MAJ and GUM tomorrow. R...

Shanghai Airlines is taking delivery of B-5368 (c/n 35273), a 737-8Q8(W), leased from ILFC. It arrived yesterday and is seen above departin...

The UK's Royal Air Force K1 (L-1011-385 "TriStar 500") air re-fueling tankers have been using HNL as a stopover point during ...

This Grand Caravan with a new look was at Kahului today. Nose art features a Hawaiian flag with the name, "The Spirit of Maui." Mo...

Taken Sat morning prior to departure as JAL7901 to MAJ and SPN.

"Mo‘ikeha", Aloha Airlines' N739AL (c/n 28500), a 737-73A(W), is getting ready to be ferried off to GYR like its sister-ship N...

Hong Kong Express Airlines' B-KBQ (c/n 35274), a 737-84P(W) is on its way to Hong Kong from BFI. It stopped off at HNL last night, and ...

The eleventh 737-846(W) for JAL, JA311J (c/n 35340), arrived in HNL last night, April 11. This aircraft is wearing JAL Express titles. It is...

It now seems that the leased Aloha Airlines 737-200’s are now starting to be returned as two flights left Honolulu this morning. Winging the...

Sad to see these aircraft parked in the middle of the field like this.

An Antonov Airlines An-124-100, UR-82027 (msn 19530502288/208), was in town today. Sorry, I do not have any inbound nor outbound flight inf...

"Kuapaka‘a", Aloha Airlines' N738AL (c/n 28499), a 737-73A(W), was ferried to GYR (Phoenix Goodyear Airport, AZ) today by its ...

Garuda Indonesian Airlines is taking delivery of PK-GHX (c/n 26440), a 737-3L9. It's flying as GIA8011, and the flight originated from ...

Over the past couple of years, I was privileged to be invited to Aloha Airlines' functions to capture the event for airliner magazines ....